Last month, Srikantan Sankaran explored how vehicle insurance policies generated by an agency could be stored securely in Azure Key Vault as secrets. Those applications were deployed to Azure App Service as Web apps. Now Sankaran shows how to deploy these applications to Azure Container Services for Kubernetes (AKS).

The current version of EF Core doesn’t allow properties based on value objects to be null, and there’s no way to replace properties that contain a value object. Julie Lerman presents work-arounds that let you get past these temporary limitations.

Human movement analysis is a fascinating area of AI. Using Microsoft technology and sensors from partners, the authors worked with athletes and coaches to analyze G-force load, turn detection and stress. Learn how to apply Microsoft technologies in sports, using samples and code included in Sensor Kit, in R, Python, C# and Cosmos DB.

Explore two modules for the modular Spark cluster computing environment. PySpark provide a Python runtime for Spark and high-level abstraction of Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) in the form of a DataFrames API, while the Spark ML library provides a machine learning API for data built on top of DataFrames.

The Fluent Design System provides a coherent framework for enabling compelling UX across a variety of device types and form factors, from cell phones to big screens. Lucas Haines explores how two useful capabilities of Fluent can streamline interaction and improve user engagement in your UWP apps.

ASP.NET SignalR was introduced a few years ago as a tool for ASP.NET developers to add real-time functionality to applications. With ASP.NET Core 2.1, SignalR has been completely redesigned. Dino Esposito explores SignalR in ASP.NET Core.

Learn how to develop apps for Apple Watch with Xamarin, Visual Studio for Mac and a shared C# .NET code base implemented within the .NET Standard Class Library. Also explore important aspects of watchOS apps, such as app structure, interface controllers and selected UI buttons.

Long short-term memory (LSTM) cells can be used to construct LSTM recurrent neural networks. These networks have been responsible for major advances in prediction systems that work with sequence data. James McCaffrey demonstrate how to implement an LSTM cell using C#.

April in the US is known most for two things: taxes and April Fool’s Day. So it’s appropriate that this month would mark the one-hundredth column by esteemed columnist and serial instigator David Platt.